A theme that is integral to Living In The Gift, for myself, is emptiness: the void, the tabula rasa, the blank canvas, the darkest hour before dawn...
We have to be empty in order to appreciate a good meal, true wealth, a meaningful touch. Our mind has to have a question, a state of not-knowing, before we can accept a new thought or wisdom.
The practise of emptiness is fundamental in many spiritual disciplines, and it can be a hugely valuable shift in our consciousness, if we bring it into our busy contemporary lives. Rather than accumulating, taking, forcing, pushing-pulling... letting go and occupying fully the quiet in-between... This space opened - contrary to our conditioning around life being effortful - allows what we really need to come in.
The most significant moments of growth and expansion in my Life have come from what would conventionally be perceived as 'lack': no income, being alone abroad, no friends nearby, no fluency of language in the country I'm in, no prospective opportunities visible or imaginable, homelessness...
Through these states of 'less' have opened riches that were literally unimaginable beforehand. The void was necessary to their coming into being.
When we see emptiness as sacred, necessary, an integral part of the mystical co-creative process, it becomes a container for blessings.
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